Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Opening, sentence 7
this book is inscribed in memory of an unclouded and greatly valued friendship lasting for over thirty years.
Who acts: unclouded friendship · What happens: inscribe, uncloud, value, last · To what, where: book, memory
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unclouded friendship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 4 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 memory | case |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inscribed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 friendship | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 friendship | det |
| 9 | unclouded | uncloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 friendship | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 valued | cc |
| 11 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 12 valued | advmod |
| 12 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unclouded | conj |
| 13 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 memory | nmod |
| 14 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 friendship | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 thirty | advmod |
| 17 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lasting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inscribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inscribe | present · passive | this book | memory of a unclouded friendship | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in memory=Destination | ||||
| 2 | uncloud | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | value | past | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | last | gerund | a unclouded friendship not said here | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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